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Who is likely to be hiring soon in the green sector?

Here are some of the latest expansions happening across Africa. 

Investors are quietly laying the foundations for Africa’s green economy across food, energy, health, waste, and transport.

For you as a jobseeker, the opportunity is to spot these signals early and build the right skills.

So, who is making a move?

• Mopo secured $6.7 million to expand battery rentals across Africa.

  Energy access has always been a stumbling block for households and small businesses in Africa. Mopo’s model, renting out rechargeable batteries, changes that story. The company aims to provide households and small businesses with clean and reliable energy, particularly in countries where millions still lack access to electricity. The business is targeting the estimated $75billion -a-year petrol generator market in Africa, positioning the MopoMax battery as a cleaner substitute for fossil fuel-based solutions. 

With fresh funding, they can scale their reach, which means jobs will emerge around the people and systems that keep this model working. These roles may include: field technicians to manage the batteries, distribution agents to get them into communities, and customer service staff to support users. 

• Nigeria’s Babban Gona raised $7.5 million in fresh funding.

  Babban Gona is an agritech company that helps smallholder farmers access training, credit, and markets. Its system allows top-performing farmers to operate micro-enterprises that supply peers with inputs and capital, eventually maturing into bankable agribusinesses. Their new funding will allow them to deepen this support. The company aims to boost yields and incomes for 140,000 farmers by 2029.

This expansion is likely to create roles for extension officers, data managers, logistics coordinators, and digital platform operators. 

• South Africa’s Alignd HealthTech received investment from E-Squared.

  Health and climate are deeply intertwined. Rising heat drives up malaria cases, poor air quality worsens respiratory diseases, and food insecurity translates into malnutrition. Alignd is a women-led healthtech company transforming the country’s private healthcare system. This funding will support its expansion from palliative care into high-cost maternity and kidney disease services.

The opportunities that will emerge here include healthcare professionals, customer service staff and administrative roles.

• SunCulture raised $5 million to expand solar-powered irrigation.

  For many African farmers, irrigation is the difference between a good harvest and no harvest at all. But diesel pumps are costly and unreliable. SunCulture offers a cleaner, more affordable option with solar irrigation systems. With this funding, SunCulture plans to accelerate expansion beyond its core Kenyan market into Uganda, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Togo. 

Its expansion strategy includes product innovation and digital integration. They are also exploring opportunities to integrate advanced digital solutions such as remote monitoring and data analytics to enhance system efficiency and provide farmers with real-time insights into water usage and crop performance.

This expansion is likely to create space for solar installers, irrigation technicians, after-sales support, and rural sales staff.

• Tanzania’s MazaoHub secured $2 million to scale AI-driven farming tools.

  AI can feel distant, but in the hands of a smallholder farmer, it might mean getting accurate weather predictions or knowing the best time to plant. With this investment, MazaoHub is planning to expand its hybrid model, which combines AI-powered soil intelligence with in-person support centres for farmers. By optimising agricultural inputs, the model reduces emissions, saves water, and improves soil health, helping farms become more resilient to climate shocks.

This will create jobs for people who can bridge technology with local farming needs. For example: AI development, farm advisory services, training, data analysis and more. 

• Nigeria received a $1.5 million boost for battery recycling.

  Every solar lamp, every battery-powered kit, and every electric vehicle eventually reaches the end of its life. Without recycling, we simply swap fossil fuel pollution for battery waste pollution. That's why Nigeria is set to host its first state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery recycling and reuse facility. This follows an investment in Hinckley E-Waste Recycling Limited by All On.

For jobseekers, this could translate into roles in recycling operations, waste collection, materials recovery, and even green manufacturing. 

• Rent-A-Drum is building Namibia’s first advanced hazardous waste facility.

  With an $11.5 million investment, the plant will safely treat and dispose of industrial and mining waste, creating at least 40 permanent jobs once operational. 

Follow these companies on LinkedIn, watch and be ready to apply when hiring calls go out.

For jobseekers, this signals openings in waste treatment, environmental safety, compliance monitoring, logistics, and lab testing. 

These are just a few hiring signals we picked up today. 

What’s your role in this? Spot the signals and build the right skills.

Connect technology, sustainability, and real-world impact. That’s where the jobs of the future are taking shape.